The Butterfly Circus

Part One

Part Two

Vujicic, Nick, and Eduardo Verástegui, perf. The Butterfly Circus. Prod. Joshua Weigel and Rebekah Weigel. 2010. DVD-ROM.

Before I begin, I would definately reccommend watching this when you have twenty minutes to kill... majorly worth it.

*Also, I do not mean to offend anyone by the following comments. It is a beautiful clip that was designed to be beautiful. The message may be applicable to religion, but doesn't directly say it outloud. Feel free to make your own assumptions. :)*

Finally, I am not completely sure how "Controversial" this is, all I know is that the producers were trying to make a point, and I believed them. That's a good enough argument for me.

Produced by Joshua and Rebekah Weigel, the butterfly circus is a short film about a man with no arms and no legs who was put on display at a circus as a freak. Put on display, the main character Will, played by Nick Vujicic is disgraced daily in order to make money. When the ring master of the proclaimed traveling band, "The Butterfly Circus," sees Will, he calls him magnificent. Taken aback, Will responds by spitting on the ring master. The story continues as Will stows away with The Butterfly Circus and is taken in as family with the rest of the performers. As Will comes to find out, the performers are all united through a common bond; They came together because they were once broken, and were fixed by the circus.

The story itself has an underlying message of God's love. Will’s life was changed when he began to see that God could use him as he was. He was emptied of his hatred and filled with hope. He learned to overcome his challenges and seek to serve others. The lesson that Will learned through his new friends was that God can redeem anyone, fill them with purpose, and use them to help lead others. Beautifully constructed, the message can be changed to allow you to apply it to yourself. simply stated, when you think the world is hopeless, somewhere a window of opportunity is opened, and the light shines in. the purpose of the movie is to prove to others, that hopelessness isn't the only answer, and that with a little bit of struggle, one can overcome even the most dire of situations.

The topic is beautiful for myself, and for anyone. As stated before, I believe that it is something that you can take and apply to yourself and use it as you will. It is something that can connect to even the least religious of people simply by the fact that it gives hope, which everyone can use a little bit of.